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Reference number
SM D2/2/11
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[84] Unfinished plan, elevation and details of octagonal turret and capping with shields and quatrefoil motif below ornamented mouldings supporting an inverted cupped patera with Ashburnham crest
Scale
1½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on wove paper (675 x 465)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman 1811
Notes
The proportion and details suggest that this was for the porte-cochere rather than for the turrets of the main front that have a vase and roses finial.
See also [SM D2/4/5] and [SM D2/4/12] for a similar pinnacle detail with the Ashburnham crest, and [SM D2/3/1A].
Verso
Very faint unfinished elevation of centre bays of main front
Pencil
Drawn with a straight edge and to scale, the unfinished elevation shows Dance's method of under-drawing the main lines of a design with faint pencil that was then gone over with drawing pen and ink. He seems never, or rarely, to have erased the pencil lines.
See also [SM D2/4/5] and [SM D2/4/12] for a similar pinnacle detail with the Ashburnham crest, and [SM D2/3/1A].
Verso
Very faint unfinished elevation of centre bays of main front
Pencil
Drawn with a straight edge and to scale, the unfinished elevation shows Dance's method of under-drawing the main lines of a design with faint pencil that was then gone over with drawing pen and ink. He seems never, or rarely, to have erased the pencil lines.
Level
Drawing
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